About
We help individuals, organizations, and communities become less polarized, more resilient to conflict, and better able to manage complexity. We use mediation, dialogue skills, self-reflection exercises, systems education, and facilitated group practices to achieve these goals.
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Our philosophy is to use the polarization and division in society as an opportunity for expanding perspective, growing character, and building stronger communities.
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We do this through our listed services.
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About Ryan Nakade
Ryan works with governments, non-profits, and civic leaders to bridge divides and make communities more resilient to conflict. He received his training in mediation and facilitation from East County Resolutions in Gresham, OR, and currently works as a facilitator for Department of Human Services family decision cases. He is Board Vice President of the Oregon Mediation Association and also on the Beaverton Center for Mediation and Dialogue advisory committee.
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Ryan works on the CURE-PDX project, which seeks to counter violent extremism in the Pacific Northwest. He is a regular facilitator for Civic Synergy, which brings college students of diverging political orientations together to formulate bipartisan policy solutions that are proposed to members of congress. In his free time, Ryan enjoys studying politics, philosophy, and complex systems, and is attempting to formulate a new style of politics that transcends polarization and entrenched partisanship (called Meta-Ideological Politics). He lives in Toledo, WA with his wife and nine goats.
